Bell.



No. 651,431. Patented June I2, I900.

P. c. ARNOLD.

B E L L. (Application filed Oct. 4, 1897.)

(No Model.)

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PIIILIP C. ARNOLD, OF EAST HAMPTON, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE BEVIN BROTHERS MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

BELL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 651,431, dated June 12, 1900.

Application filed October 4, 1897.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PHILIP C. ARNOLD, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of East Hampton, in the county of Middlesex and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bells, of which the followingis a full, clear, and exact description, whereby any one skilled in the art can make and use the same.

The object of my invention is to provide means whereby a yielding pressure shall be insured on the strikers of a bell-striking mechanism at all times; and to this end my invention consists in the details of the several parts making up the structure as a whole and in the combination of such parts, as hereinafter described, and more particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figure l is a plan view of a bell having striking mechanism embodying my invention with the gong removed. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same. Fig. 3is adetail View, on enlarged scale, showing the striker-bar. Fig. 4 is a side View of the same. Fig. 5 is an end view of the same. Fig. 6 is a side view, on enlarged scale, of the striker-bar with the spring-plate and strikers in place. Fig. 7 is a top view of the same, showing the parts in one position of assembly. Fig. 8 is a like view showing the parts in the final step of assembly.

In the accompanying drawings the letter (t denotes the base of a bell; b, the post; 0, the striker-bar, rotatively mounted thereon, and d the lever for rotating the striker-bar. Strikers e are loosely mounted on the striker-bar, and a striker-plate fis used for exerting a yielding pressure upon the strikers for the purpose of causing the perfect operation thereof. Prior to myinvention in this form of bells the striker-platef has been mounted on the post 5 either directly or indirectly and the ends bearing with a yielding pressure upon the strikers but in use it has been found that these striker-plates are apt to become distorted, so that little or no spring action is exerted on the strikers. By the use of my invention hereinafter described this defect is entirely avoided. The strikers e have a slot 6 for the purpose of allowing a movement radially of the base, a lug 9 being struck from the substance of the plate and passing through Serial No. 653,984. (No model.)

or into the slot 6 and a lug 0 also extending into the slot in the striker, these two lugs limiting the movement of the striker in both dithat the head shall lie crosswise of the strikerbar 0. A slot f is formed in the striker-plate f crosswise thereof and in a position to register with the head g of the lug g, that is passed through the slot in the striker-plate as the parts are assembled. turned in a position at right angles to that first assumed, and, as shown in Fig. 8 of the drawings, the head in this instance overlying the top surface of the striker-plate and preventing any excessive upward movement to an extent to destroy its spring action.

It is obvious that other means for holding the striker plate may be employed and yet come within the scope of my invention; but the means herein described are preferred.

I claim as my inve'ntion 1. In combination in a bell-striking mechanism, a rotary striker-bar, a striker mounted thereon, a striker plate overlying the striker and having an elongated slot of uniform width therein,and a lug from the strikerbar passing through the striker and having a T-shaped head adapted to pass through the slot in the striker-plate and to lie crosswisethereof.

2. In combination in a bell-striking mechanism, a rotary striker-bar, a striker loosely mounted thereon, a striker-plate overlying the striker and having a slot of uniform width therein, and a lug from the striker-bar having an elongated head adapted to pass through the slot in the plate and overlying the same.

3. In a bell-striking mechanism, in combination, a rotary striker-bar, a striker loosely mounted thereon, a striker-plate overlying the striker and having a slot therein, a lug upturned from the striker bar, extending through the striker-plate and having an elongatedhead greater in length than the shortest distance across the slot in the striker-plate.

PHILIP O. ARNOLD.

Witnesses:

O. G. BEVIN, O. O. Wnsr.

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